Successor To The Free Lance, Established 1887 VOL. 38—No. 1 Baird, Doherty Join Services; Election Likely Because both Robert D. Baird - '42, All-College president, and Gerald P. Doherty '42, All-College vice-president, will probably not return to the College this fall, an emergency All-College .election •may be held. - During the summer, Baird en .listed in the Naval Air Corps rather than 'be drafted. He is scheduled to begin training .some time this month. Doherty was called in the draft and will prob ably be inducted soon. • To. legalize the new election, an amendment to the constitution had to be rushed through at the final. Cabinet meeting last spring when Baird and Doherty learned • they would probably not be able (Continued, on Page Eleven)• Iq;IlIIII:i~lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllltillllllllllllllliltlllllll1111111 Campus News Briefs 11111111 1 1 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111inlililtili 'Freshman (lass Meetings Start September 16 A . Series. of five. freshman class. meetings, with "A New Slant on College Life" as their theme, will begin in Schwab Auditorium at p. m.'Tuesday, September' 16. • The meetings are intended .to help freshmen.develop class spirit, understand the. College better and meet problems of adjustment to campus life, according' to Mary Betty Anderson '42, chairman of the committee, in charge. At each meeting, the theme will.be expressed by speakers,' panel .discussions, and dramatic presentations. Cheerleaders, the dePart merit of music, Players, and Thespians will aid in' the programs. The five meetings .will deal with "College Freshman—Personal ity Plus," "College Freshman—the Collegian," "College Freshman— BMOC," "College Freshman—Student," and "College Freshman— , 7itizen." The series is sponsored by the . PSCA. Carnegie Hall.. Ready In October, Watkins Says Carnegie Hall, which was expected to be ready for occupancy during the summer after being remodeled, will probably not be used until October, according to Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer. He said work is being delayed because defense priorities have .prevented the .contractor, State . College 'Construction Co., from ob taining steel necessary to build partitions. Hall, Carnegie formerly Carnegie Library, will be occupied by the departments of 'journalism, music, and military science and tactics. Collegian, Froth, and Portfolio offices will,-be moved from the third floor of Old'Main.' NYA Work Cut 20 Per Cent Maddox Says NYA work on the campus will be cut about 20 per cent in keep ing with .a nation-wide decrease, according •to Stanley B. Maddox, administrative assistant_in charge of NYA. All NYA business will be handled in a new office, Room 308 Old Main. Frank E. Whiting will. be the office manager. Under the College's NYA regulations, freshmen may not apply for work until they have been formally admitted. by the registrar. Stu dents who apply - must be between 16 and 24 years old, and must carry three=fourths of a normal schedule. NYA work will not be given to fraternity men•or women. Ghost Writer Begins Annual Task Composing Freshman Class Song That ghost writer is on the loose again! Every fall, one or two weeks before Freshman Week begins, strange melodies are heard float ing over Penn State campus as a mysterious musical genius starts his annual task of composing the freshman class song. This composer writes a new freshman song every year and leaves it somewhere on campus at a traditional spot. It has been i' find at Student Union, Old Main 'belfry, at the foot of Old Willow, the flag pole,—no place .seldom used more than once. • The 'man 'who must annually .go, on a 'campus song hunting expedi tion is "Dean" Richard W. Grant, head ,of the department of mupie., , Tilt Batty ~...„,,, .;,,..,,,,,,, ft ,:.,,,,, i . 0 ,„ ~, ,41rt.r THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA 500 FEWER MEN will be in the 'junior and senior classes, accord ing to William S. Hoffman, College registrar. He believes that many men have joined the armed forces during the summer or . will not return to the College in order to take. profitable jobs in defense industries. Last year, the ghost writer almost missed the deadline because his hiding place was too secretive. A last-minute search by Dean Grant and some cheerleaders fin ally uncovered the class song un der the cannon in front of the armory. It was appropriately written to the tune of the artillery anthem, "The Caisson Song." However, the musical wizard is very temperamental. Whenever another budding genius offers his song in competition, he sulks and refuses to produce his annual Composition. He did this in 1916, and so .angered. that he remained idle in 1917 also. Joe Sanders 'l5 was the .com poser who wrote "Fight On State" (Continued on Page Three) OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Enrollment Drop Seen; College Scans Epidemic Poliomyelitis May Medical Technology Curriculum Started Upset Schedules With the sudden surge of in fantile paralysis spreading to 11 counties in the state and the State department of Health asking these counties to defer the starting of the school term until October 1, College officials are sitting tight and waiting for further develop ments. Aware of the situation, the Col lege has not committed itself upon the status of students who wish to return to Penn State from the semi-quarantined counties, be cause it has received no well-de fined policy. from the State De partment of Health. The danger of upsetting Fresh man Week schedules and disturb ing the entire College year is fac ed by the infantile paralysis epi demic. Colleges •and universities in the infected areas have been asked .by the state health officials to postpone their opening until .October .1„ • Wilether the ., student may come counties 'will depend' probably „ upon the- county health boards. It is believed, however, that if stu dents procure a legal permit to leave. their county and one to enter this one, College officials will allow them to enter State College. A suggestion from J. Moore Campbell, director of the Bureau of Health Conservation of the • (Continued on Page Eleven) Campus Traffic Rules Revised New campus traffic regulations, for both students and faculty members, were released by the Campus Patrol in June. - Under the new rules, students may park automobiles 'in two areas: the west parking lot near the varsity tennis courts, and the Shortlidge Road lot across from Frances Atherton Hall. The regulations eliminate all parking on Pollock Road between the west end of the New Physics Building and the east end of the Mineral Industries Building be tween 7 a. in. and 6 p.' m. Parking is prohibited on Burrowes Road between the Beta Theta Pi fra ternity house and W. College ave. and on Shortlidge Road. During four hours •of the day, another rule provides for one-way traffic on Burrowes Road• between Pollock Road and W. College ave. From 7:30 to 8:30 a. in. and from 12:45 p. in. to 1:45 p. m. traffic will be northbound only. From 11:30 a. in. to 12:30 p. m. and from 4:30 to 5:30 p. in. it will be south bound only. Faculty and staff members are permitted to park in any parking area. When the owner is on an: errand, •parking will be permitted on the north side of roads running east and west, and on the west side of roads running north and south. Visitors are also permitted to park in these locations. The rules state that speed on central . campus roads is limited .strictly• to 20 miles .per hour and "to a rate .within this limit which provides for the safety of pedes trians." tgiatt A new curriculum in medical technology was established dur ing the summer by the Board of Trustees. With the adoption of the new work, students who enroll this fall will find 47 separate courses available Tha new curriculum will pre pare students to become medical laboratory technicians. During the past year approximately 60 women students were preparing for this field in the Schools of Chemistry and Physics, and Ag riculture. The course in medical technol ogy will now, bring these students together under a standard study Program.. Benson Predicts Record Pledging A rushing season which may see a '-reCord' number of . -freshmen , pledge social fraternities -will of ficially get under Way at 7 p. m. next Tuesday. A prediction that more men than ever before will pledge during the eight-day. period was voiced yes terday by Thomas J. L. Henson '42, Interfraternity Council presi dent. Last year, 510 men from all classes pledged. It is estimated that, in addition, approximately 100 men joined fraternities after" rushing season ended. Henson urged each freshman to know before he arrives on campus whether he wants to pledge a fraternity. He requested those who do want to pledge not to sign rooming contracts. 'With one exception the IFC rushing code will be virtually the same as it was last year. The ex ception is the removal of the ban upon out-of-town rushing parties. According to the code, such parties will be permitted- but must have a chaperon approved by the Judici ary Committee. Pledging will not be allowed until after 5:30 p.m. next Thurs day. Like last year, rushees will be permitted to live in fraternity houses during rushing season. However, other fraternities must be permitted to rush these students if the students desire. More Features! This special introductory issue of The Daily Collegian con tains only a few of the features , which appear regularly during the year. Many of these depart ments, to which you will be come acustomed, are so closely related to normal campus life, that they cannot be used until classwork actually starts. Campus Calendar is one of our regular depart ments. Each day, it lists all meetings and other activities for the next day. Other features, too .numerous to explain, in clude daily selected radio pro grams, humor columns, articles written by authoritative faculty members, and world news flashes. Introductory Issue PRICE THREE CENTS 500 Fewer Men, Hoffman Says A loss of about 500 men from the junior and - senior classes, for reasons closely connected with the national emergency, was pre dicted yesterday by Registrar William S. Hoffman. He said he expects that many men not to return to the College because they have been drafted during the summer, or have taken jobs in defense industries. Men may prefer to keep these jobs, he• added, because, of high salaries and the likelihood of draft defer ment. . However, he said that this de crease would not affect the fresh man class which "will be just as large as last year, possibly a little larger." Last year, 1,965 freshmen were enrolled on the, main campus and at the Mont Alto school for for estry and engineering students. He said that on August 23, the latest date for which figures have been compiled, 1,569 freshmen had been admitted and 2,581 applica tions received. On the same date lait year; 2 t 654: men and women had-aplillegi 'for admission - to the freshman. class. The only places where the na tional emergency will affect fresh man enrollment, according to the registrar, will be at the four un dergraduate centers .Altoona, (Continued on Page Seven) Preliminary Work Starts On Shrine Heinz Warneke, sculptor who will carve the Lion Shririe, signed a contract with the College late in July and is now working on a full-- size plaster model. The shrine is a gift of the class of 1940. It will be a crouching mountain lion, symbolic of the Nittany Lion, and will be made of Indiana limestone. Its location will be in front of the water tow er, between Rec Hall and New Beaver Field. Warneke expects to complete the plaster model sometime this month. He will then bring it .to the campus to determine the ex act location ,and the height of tha foundation. Actual work on the sculpture will start at an Indiana quarry where workmen will "rough out" the figure. After that it will be brought here.' Carving will be done in the open to permit specta tors to watch as they did when Henry Varnum Poor painted the: Land Grant fresco in Old Main lobby. The shrine will be three times life-size. It is being financed by the $5,340 which the class of 1940 appropriated as a gift fund. Town Parking Meters Again In Operation Parking meters on the north side of College ave. again must be fed with some of father's hard earned nickels. At the end of the last College year, Borough Council took the meters out of operation. However, .on July 21, this action was reversed when Council finally decided to buy the meters which previously had been on trial.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers